In this first blog entry I want to provide a brief overview of IBM's current cloud technologies,and then introduce the two types of WebSphere MQ products that we currently have available: the WebSphere MQ Hypervisor Edition; and the IBM Messaging Extension for...

My previous blog post gave an overview of the MQ Patterns available for IBM SmartCloud. If that interested you then you might like to listen to this podcast where the very talented John McNamara (from MQ User Technologies) interviews me on the same...

Well, by now most of us are familiar with the word "Patterns" arising out of the PureApplication System. It offers a nice concept to encapsulate all actions (often we call that as a best practices) in to a single deployable unit (technically a...

During maintenance update in PureApplication System V2.0, the upgrade from WebSphere Application Server (WAS) vSys 8.5.5.2 to 8.5.5.3 will fail if using WebSphere Application Server Pattern Type 1.0.0.0. This will occur only for deployments using...